“The Political Construction of AI”, produced by the Turkish organization bianet.org, recently interviewed Larry Lohmann, from The Corner House and a member of the WRM Advisory Committee. He characterizes ‘artificial intelligence’ (‘AI’) as a form of “machine colonialism” marked by indefinitely-ballooning energy consumption and brutal grabs of water and low- and zero-cost labour.
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The documentary “Pig Feast: Colonialism in our time" presents a vivid picture of the struggle of Indigenous Peoples across the island of Papua against destruction of their territories. The film highlights indigenous resistance against large-scale projects that destroy peoples’ life spaces. One such project is the National Strategic Project Merauke, with 2.5 million hectares currently the world´s largest deforestation Project.
Indigenous Peoples from Ecuador are calling for support to stop the expansion of the oil frontier in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Three million hectares of the Amazon rainforest are to be handed over to oil companies, impacting countless Indigenous Peoples.
The Energy Transition Observatory is a platform providing information about the impacts of supposedly 'clean energy' projects on Indigenous and Quilombola territories, conservation units, and agrarian reform settlements in Brazil.
GRAIN explains how the infamous Article 6 of the UN Paris Agreement on climate change is creating a rush for governments in the global South to set up carbon offset schemes.
In this publication the Indonesian organisation Walhi denounces the country’s government classification of the floods and landslides that heavily struck Aceh, North and West Sumatra in December 2025 as a ´natural disaster´.
The article describes carbon offsetting through the lens of the Makira REDD project in north-eastern Madagascar. The author describes how communities “were being asked to participate in a system that operated on timescales, markets, and legal abstractions far beyond their experience.
The article, COP: 30 Years of Disillusionment, stands out among the thousands of pages written about the UN Climate Change Conference. It analyzes the danger posed by the COP apparatus itself, which prevents movements from imagining and fighting for systemic transformation. “Our task is not to reform the COP. Our task is to outgrow it – to build something that cannot be contained. To redirect our resources away from convention halls and toward struggles on the ground.
A recent report on the transnational corporation SOCFIN – owned by the French group Bollore and the Hubert Fabri family of Luxembourg – exposes the sexual violence, expulsions of local populations, and the contamination suffered by communities living around rubber and oil palm plantations. Socfin is an agri-food company with operations in 10 countries in the Global South. It controls approximately 380,000 hectares of land where it grows oil palm and rubber trees on an industrial scale.
“This manifesto is our roadmap in this decisive moment, the pulse of collective action, a call for profound systemic transformation.” With these words, La Via Campesina calls for people to read the demands they set forth in the “Via Campesina Manifesto for COP30” and, even more importantly, for readers to turn these demands into coordinated actions.
A group of grassroots communicators traversed “seas, rivers, jungles, valleys, plains, and, of course, indigenous communities, in five states of the Mexican Republic” to document the impacts of three megaprojects in Mexico: The Maya Train, the Morelos Integral Project and the Interoceanic Corridor.
Can the World Bank use the urgency of the climate crisis as an excuse to favor the same financial and corporate interests that have caused the crisis? The answer is yes, as shown in the report "Climatewash: The World Bank's Fresh Offensive On Land Rights," published this year by the Oakland Institute. The report takes an in-depth look at the World Bank's Global Program for Land Tenure Security and Land Access for Climate Goals, launched in 2024.